Risky, controversial, and unproven stem cell therapies are attracting the attention of hundreds of neurologists across the U.S.<br />A team of neurologists has released a new study that reveals their fellow doctors are frequently asked about these procedures by desperate patients.<br />According to Gizmodo, many doctors among the 200 surveyed in the study are also seeing patients with serious complications from stem cell therapy.<br />Such complications include seizures, infections, spinal tumors, stroke, paralysis, bloodborne infections like hepatitis C, and several deaths.<br />In one case, a tumor had cells that didn’t seem to belong to the patient, suggesting the donor’s cells had somehow turned cancerous.<br />In other cases, the therapy seemed to worsen the progression of the disease it was meant to treat.
